On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:
I do wonder about this as Lojban grows and expands, though. I
wouldn't be surprised if people stop doing this to names eventually,
and just use people's names when talking...
Well the compromise that's emerged is the experimental cmavo "la'oi",
which is like "la" but can be followed by any foreign name (or at
least any name without a pause in it). Some people have opposed
"la'oi" as breaking some of Lojban's theoretical parsing qualities,
which it surely does, but who knows if those particular qualities are
important. I try not to use "la'oi" in any formal situations, myself,
but I doubt this level of compromise can be resisted.